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Distribution and accumulation rate of Hg in the upper quaternary sediments of the Deryugin Basin, Sea of Okhotsk

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The Hg distribution and some mineralogical-geochemical features of bottom sediments up to a depth of 10 m in the Deryugin Basin showed that the high and anomalous Hg contents in the Holocene deposits are confined to a spreading riftogenic structure and separate fluid vents within it. The accumulations of Hg in the the sediments were caused by its fluxes from gas and low-temperature hydrothermal vents under favorable oceanological conditions in the Holocene. The two mainly responsible for the high and anomalous Hg contents are infiltration (fluxes of hydrothermal or gas fluids from the sedimentary cover) and plume (Hg precipitation from water plumes with certain hydrochemical conditions forming above endogenous sources). The infiltration anomalies of Hg were revealed in the following environments: (1) near gas vents on the northeastern Sakhalin slope, where high Hg contents are associated only with Se and were caused by the accumulation of gases ascending from beneath the gas hydrate layer; (2) in the area of inferred occasionally operating low-temperature hydrothermal seeps in the central part of the Deryugin Basin, in which massive barite chimneys, hydrothermal Fe-Mn crusts, and anomalous contents of Mn, Ba, Zn, and Ni in sediments develop.

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    A. S. Astakhov, M. V. Ivanov & V. V. Sattarova

  2. Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences, Wischhofstrasse 1–3, Kiel, D-24148, Germany

    K. Wallmann

  3. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 19, Moscow, 11991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Astakhov, K. Wallmann, M.V. Ivanov, G.M. Kolesov, V.V. Sattarova, 2007, published in Geokhimiya, 2007, No. 1, pp. 54–70.

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Astakhov, A.S., Wallmann, K., Ivanov, M.V. et al. Distribution and accumulation rate of Hg in the upper quaternary sediments of the Deryugin Basin, Sea of Okhotsk. Geochem. Int. 45, 47–61 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702907010041

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